 And the Benway State Governor, Samuel Ottom, on Tuesday, asked the federal government to count the state out of its planned rehabilitation of grazing reserves. Governor Ottom stated this in reaction to the earlier statement of the senior special assistant on publicity and media to the president, Garba Shehu, that the federal government was planning to rehabilitate the grazing reserves across the country. Ottom said no land in the state had been gazetted for grazing reserves because Benway had since embraced and ranching as the best global practice. He added that open grazing of animals is no longer fashionable and should be banned to pave way for ranching nationally.